Indonesian economic crisis on household welfare there. Using only pre-crisis household information, we estimate the compensating …-parametric methods. We find that virtually every household was severely impacted, although it was the urban poor that fared the worst … the geographic location of the household mattered even within urban or rural areas and household income categories …

This paper assesses the impacts across US household income groups of carbon taxes of various designs. We consider both …

We construct key household and individual economic variables using a panel micro data set from the Russia Longitudinal …

quantify the contribution of various factors to the distribution of household income. We find that educational assortative … mating accounts for a non-negligible part of the cross-sectional inequality in household income in each country. However …, changes in assortative mating over time barely move the time trends in household income inequality. This is because the …

The goal of this chapter is to study how, and by how much, household income, wealth, and preference heterogeneity …, using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we document the patterns of household income, consumption and wealth …. Motivated by this evidence, we study several variants of a standard heterogeneous household model with aggregate shocks and an …

We study how Americans respond to idiosyncratic and exogenous changes in household wealth and unearned income. Our …

China's high household savings rate has attracted great academic interest but remains a puzzle. Potential explanations … include demographic, policy, and financial causes. Yet a lack of reliable microlevel data on household finances makes it …